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Title: On Becoming Good Enough: Stories from Both Sides of the Couch
Author: MCKINLEY GAY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/09/2016
Imprint: CONSIGNMENT STOCK
Price: $22.95
Publishing status: Active
That sounds good enough to me, she suggested.
Oh, good enough is NEVER good enough! the other rebuffed.
In her years as a psychotherapist, this sense of never being good enough sat alongside most of Gays clients. It, likewise, sat alongside herself for most of her life. It sits with too many of us who, despite great striving and life achievements, still dont believe we are good enough. There is little written about it. Until now.
Through Gays clients courageous, inspiring and often heart-wrenching stories, she explores the subtle and not-so-subtle ways our good enough selves get lost, stomped on or hidden away. Their stories traverse the crushing impact of trauma on our sense of self as well as those benign events that can equally crush our younger selves. They put the spotlight on the crucial role of being seen, acknowledged and validated. They highlight the danger in hanging on to our life mistakes – our cloaks of sapphires. They demonstrate how everyday experiences can reinforce faulty beliefs. There are tales of failure and tragedy and, in spite of both, triumph and trust in the good enough self.
Woven throughout is a candid expos of Gays own journey of becoming good enough, the eerie parallels with her clients, and the way forward to reclaim that essential part of ourselves – our good enough self.
She has written these stories because it took her nearly 60 years to know that she is good enough. This book is for all those who dont feel they are good enough in the hope that they come to know that they are.
ISBN: 9780994572707